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Fadi Bey Sharif:
Fayez Stephen, a member of the executive office of the National Union of Syrian Students and director of the Office of Private Education, revealed that the number of places allocated to Syrian students with Syrian secondary school certificates in private universities has increased by up to 40% compared to the past. This will lead to a decrease in the admission rate of these universities compared to previous years.
Stephen said the decline came after the Higher Education Commission decided this year to set the number of seats for “non-resident Syrians, Arabs and foreigners” in each major at universities to not exceed 40%. The number of admissions for each major exceeded the stipulated capacity, while in previous years these seats were allocated within the capacity, which increased the number of seats and reduced the admission rate compared to private universities.
Homomorphic transformations and constraint changes
A member of the Executive Office said that the Higher Education Commission decided to increase the percentage of admissions to private universities on the basis of like-for-like transfer (changing the university but keeping the same major), explaining that the percentage was determined not to exceed 6% of the student population, compared to 4% last year, and to increase the percentage of admissions to private universities on the basis of change of admission (changing the major within the same university or another private university) by providing that the percentage of admissions to private universities on the basis of academic certificate or bachelor’s degree shall not exceed 4% of the student population, compared to 2% last year. The percentage of maintaining the number of students on campus shall not exceed 6%.
Al-Watan obtained a copy of the decision of the Higher Education Council, according to which the professor-student ratio was set at one professor for 35 students instead of one professor for 20 students in engineering, pharmacy, nursing, medicine, dentistry, allied health professions and information technology, and 50 students instead of 40 students in the faculties of science, agriculture, veterinary medicine, economics and arts, and 70 students instead of 60 students in other professions and faculties.
The maximum number of students in a teaching department is 60 students in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and 50 students in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences.
Medical School
The allocation of master’s degrees to private educational institutions is extended until the 2024/2025 academic year. According to Article 2 of the decision, the number of Syrian students with Syrian secondary school certificates and their equivalents is determined as follows: 240 permanent courses in medical schools, 180 courses in dentistry and 140 courses in pharmacy for the 2024/2025 academic year in private university medical schools, after the availability of human resources and infrastructure, in accordance with scientific accreditation rules. As for the temporary headquarters, 240 courses in human medicine, 140 courses in dentistry and 120 courses in pharmacy are designated.
Article 3 provides for the determination of the number of Syrian students holding Syrian secondary certificates and their equivalent in universities and other professions, taking into account the availability of infrastructure and human resources.
According to Article 4, Syrian private universities must provide the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research with the number of new Syrian students to be admitted in the 2024-2025 academic year, etc., taking into account the absorption capacity of each faculty (professor-student-survey ratio), and shall not exceed the number specified in this decision.
Article 5 provides that, in addition to the number of places to be absorbed, the number of quotas for “non-resident Syrian, Arab and foreign” students in each major shall be determined not to exceed 40% of the number of students prescribed for admission to each major. In accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of this Decision, these seats are allocated according to the origin of the certificates so that the proportion of certificates issued by one country does not exceed 50%, with vacancies in each proportion filled from other countries.
Increased carrying capacity
According to the provisions of Article 6, private universities may enroll students in excess of the enrollment scale prescribed in Article 4 of this Decision on a similar transfer basis, with a proportion not exceeding six percent of the total number of students, provided that: the proportion of students wishing to transfer who have completed 26 credits is the minimum proportion in the university to which they are to transfer, and the proportion on a transfer basis does not exceed 4 percent of the students, provided that the student has achieved the admission score. In the year of transfer, the proportion of students with a college certificate or bachelor’s degree does not exceed 6 percent in comparison with the university to which they are to transfer, in accordance with the principles and regulations approved by the Higher Education Commission.
When admitting students, the professor-student ratio is taken into account in accordance with the principles approved by the Council for Higher Education.
Under Article 8, private universities are required to electronically enter the data of students admitted in all programmes on the website in accordance with the approved principles and private universities located at temporary headquarters are required to consider their availability based on their infrastructure and laboratories as per the provisions of the decision of the Council of Higher Education.
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